Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-11
Washington News and Gossip.

THE SUPPLEMENT OF THE EVENING STAR to-day
contains: Vice in the District, the Indiana con-
test, Salisbury's reconstructed cabinet the wreck
on Virginia Beach, Miser Perrys strange nfe tele-
graphic dispatches etc. The advertisements are
classified as follows: Auction Sales, Educational
Dry Goods, Gentlemen's Goods, Books, Sewing Ma
chimes, Pianos and Organs, Hotels, Ladies' Goods
Family Supplies, Wood and Coal, Housefurnish-
ings, Financial, Attorneys, Professional The
Trades, Specialties, Undertakers Railroads, Poto-
mac River Boats, Steamers, Medical, Dentistry.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
nue., $1ss, ,2S1; customs, $617,531.
PATENTS IssUED.-Patents have been issued to
citizens of the District as follows: James w.
Graydon, percussion firing device for torpedoes;
William 81. H. Knight, portable furnace; John
Modini, exhibiting device; Morgan Pennybacker,
chair seat.
ALL THE CABINET OFFICERS were present at the
regular Cabinet meeting to-day except Secretary
Lamar, who Is still out OF the city.
ARMY ORDERs-FIrst Lieutenant II. L. Harris,
first artillery, is transferred from battery NJ to
battery !, vice first Lieutenant Jno. P. Wissner
transferred from battery Ito battery NJ. Corporal
James Nugent, of the battalion Of engineers, re-
tired on his own application.
MOVEMENTS OF U. 8. NAVAL vEssEIs.-The Navy
department is informed that the q. s. S. Ossipee
dIilNcu dC AlSicIS ycSCcfuAy, anu G1aC Gu0 u >. d
Yantic sailed from Aspinwau yesterday for Key
West.
VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND PosTMAsTERs. The
following fourth-class postmasters have been ap-
pointed in Virginia: John E. Shorter, Chula De-
pot Amelia Co.; w. N. Hunter, Green Forest,
Rockbridge Co., and T. P. Watkins, Millinsville,
Henry Co. w. A. Dorsey has been appointed at
Governor Run, Calvert Co., Md.
Mr.. EBENEzER HENDERSON, the newly appointed
deputy commissioner Of internal revenue, has as
Sumed his new duties.
CHARGED WITH SwINDLING AN OLD PENsIoNER.-
B. F. Harvey was arrested January Sth on Big
Sandy river, KY, by Special Agent A. w. come,
OF the Pension Office, and brought to Charleston,
by the United States courts for defrauding an Old
pens1Oner, aged 81, out of One-hah OF his pension
after long search through Ohio and wv West % virginia
he was finally arrested in Kentucky by the special
agent.
NAVAL ORDERs.-L1eut. James II. Ball, ordered
to duty on the Asatic station, per steamer Of the
22d inst. from San Francisco; L1euts NJ. L. Wood
and s. II. May, to instruction in ordnance
Geo gup 5hs naAy Sa
Ensign A. C.. Almy detached from the Tennessee
and placed on waiting orders. Commodore Jno.
Lee Davis commissioned as rear admiral from the
3Oth october, 1885.
NOVEL MTERNAT1oNAL CASE DEcIDED.-The
U. s. Supreme Court rendered decision yesterday
in the habeas corpus case Of the king of the Bel
gians, by Consul Mali, against the keeper of the
Hudson county Jail. in New Jersey. Briefly stated,
the Belgian steamer Nordland, lying at her dock
in Jersey City, was the scene Of a row between
Belgian sailors, one of whom was killed. The
local authorities arrested the sailors implicated
but Mali claimed sole jurisdiction. The Supreme
Court decides that disorders which disturb only
the peace of the ship or those On board may be
dealt with by the sovereignty to which the ship
people on shore may be suppressed and the Offend
ers punished by the proper authorities of local
jurisdiction. The writ OF habeas corpus was dis
missed In accordance with the decision OF the
court below.